At 05:09 PM 9/22/2002 +0100, Robert O'Connor wrote:
>On 22 Sep 2002 at 8:46, Fringe Ryder wrote:
>
> > Day three of owning a Palm and Day two of playing with Plucker, I've
> > decided to produce a more-useful Windows-user Guide. This caused me to
> > review mentally the process of getting Plucker up.
>
>Sounds like a fine addition.
>
> > but it was also very clear that ZLib had to be installed
> > first, which came from ZBoxZ, whose link was not as clear-and-concise as
> > could be.
> >
> > Is there any reason we can't include a zlib version in the install? I see
> > the headers in CVS, but not the actual library. Yeah, I know it's a
> > different team, but distribution isn't an issue is it?
>
>For the windows install, it should be included already. In the setup
>wizard and install
>handheld software wizards there are 3 things that can be installed to the
>handheld, and it
>brackets their level of their importance:
>[ ] Plucker viewer (required)
>[ ] ZLib (strongly recommeded)
>[ ] User manual (optional).
>
>Zlib isn't 100% required, you can use DOC compression. It is just strongly
>recommended to use
>zlib.
>
>Perhaps you meant to put the zlib code in CVS?
>
>Best wishes,
>Robert
No, you are correct (I just checked) but the online documentation is
incorrect. I think I'll work on reconciling the various website and docs
to the current reality. If you scrupulously follow the documentation,
you'll wind up on ZBoxZ.
Which leads to this proposal... How about we put the web page into CVS
also? That way I could fix things up (after getting CVS up-and-running)
and TPTB could easily move forward to the changes or backwards to the
previous revision with minimal pain and maximal gain.
Mike--- fair enough on the ZLib inclusion, but a lot of projects I've
worked on used CVS, PVCS, or SourceSafe as version management (i.e. as if
it were to manage concurrent versions rather than purely source), including
of libraries, rather than purely Source-Code version management. It
ensures you can recreate a full 1.1.13 environment easily, rather than
having to crib together missing binaries from other sources. I happily go
either way, just proposing a solution to an apparently non-existent problem
since ZLib got included in the build anyhow. <grin>
Tony McNamara
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